Grrl Power #710 – Womenities

Hopefully it’s obvious, but Slyv is setting up collapsible shelters there in that bay.

Dabbler used to fly around the galaxy with Cora a lot, and that’s when the ship got a lot of the crazier amenities installed. Cora is more sexually adventurous than most people, but it’s when she hangs around with Dabbler that she really gets caught up in it, and starts combining that particular hobby with her normal pastime of engineering. Thus, a bunch of crazy sexmenities that in reality barely ever get used.

I didn’t mention it on the last page, but Sydney is wearing one of Frix’s old coats while her Archon gear is being laundered. You know how after a gal has naked time with a guy, she has to walk around in some over sized garment of his, like a t-shirt or hoodie or something? It’s not just an Earth law, it’s intergalactic. Well, intragalactic really. Who knows how those weirdos over in Andromeda handle it.

Also, I didn’t forget Sydney’s glasses. They’re being repaired. She really only needs them for reading anyway.

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Discussion (241) ¬

Ah, those are portable shelters. I though they were cargo pods in the process of being stored in the bays, and one was damaged in transport. Shouldn’t that small box inside the hazard lines be inside a secure vault, if it is the dangerous thing mentioned earlier, leaving it out like that seems to be asking for trouble, particularly with inquisitive kids now going to be in the area.

I’m guessing it means “fly across the breadth of a nebula.” I.e. make a long journey. Which makes sense. You don’t want to go on a long distance trek without anyone on hand in case something happens. Cracked.com did an article a few years back that pointed out that the ship in “Alien” was critically undermanned – even without the acid blooded xenomorph getting involved, they would have been in serious risk in the event of disease, or ship damage. More crew = more people to deal with problems that have caused injuries and/or deaths to some of said crew.

Are you kidding me??? Crew are dangerous!!! They’re always forgetting stuff, dropping stuff, hurting themselves, doing unexpected stuff, etc. The more people you have, the more problems they are going to cause. Remember: There’s no such as foolproof, because fools are so ingenious. Presumably, the ship is robust enough to handle anything of a space or engineering nature on its own, and has the necessary automation to do the maintenance to keep itself running, so you wouldn’t need a large crew, or possibly, a crew at all. You’d really just need crew to deal with non-crew.

Space is not empty, and any number of things can cause a malfunction. Radiation, micrometeorite impacts and so on. Having a crew on a simple satellite or long range probe makes no sense because the cost of having a crew outweighs the probable cost of having your probe malfunction and get lost in the vasty universe. That cost benefit ratio shifts considerably when you’re operating an enormously expensive long-haul or multiple mission space-to-space freighter.

I doubt that “run a nebula” is referring to the distance. This ship clearly covers dozens &/or hundreds of light years in a day or two, at most.

“Running a nebula” would much more likely refer to how dangerous it is due to the amount of various stuff in it. Particles, energy, interactive waves of energy & particles, etc. Normal space between stars & nebulae is calm & empty, stars are born by the dozen in some nebulae, others are the death throes of novas, supernovas, pulsars ripping black holes apart, black holes tearing each other apart as they merge into vastly denser black holes, and various other fun and interesting class 11 whitewater rapids in space.

Tentacles are best experienced in zero G, where they can act as an anchor while providing just the right about of bounce and give.

This would be a safety feature, because despite how it may look, being hoisted in the air by tight thin tentacles into the air by the arms and legs is actually extremely painful and can *especially with any tugging and thrusting, causing limbs to become disjointed and pull painfully on ligaments and muscles.

So Zero-G is your best bet for a full body 3-D sexual experience; unless you just want to be partially submerged in water *almost the same thing*, other wise its on a bed, or some awkward the tentacle monster has some larger support tentacles like tails you lie on while it screws your brains out.

Waaa! I’ve been power-binging this webcomic since I discovered it and just reached the “end”, or the 1-a-week updates. Really love it and am sad that I now have to wait longer than a page load for the next installment.

Now you get to fill your spare time reading the comments (remember, there is usually more than one page, so don’t ignore the first page and repeat the same inane question that was asked, and answered, three times already :P)

With comics like this one, I usually reread the archives every once in a while. With fewer than a hundred pages per year and the “every page a complete clause” writing style for most of the run, this one’s been every couple of years on average, I think, with a smaller gap than usual before the first reread. Just finished the current archive binge and now I’m at loose ends. At least this time it’s at a lull in the arcs and not a series of cliffhangers.

Come on, Sydney! You’ve literally had DREAMS about this! Seize the moment! Get into that Tentacle Closet and make those dreams a reality! You will never have this opportunity again without asking Dabbler for it!

I like Sydney without her glasses. She looks more mature and ….. Sexy, Plus I am quite sure ‘the Good Doctor’ was able to “repair” her eyes to give her 20/20 vision perhaps using Nanites instead of Lasers, and lets not overlook Sydney’s Hair. Which Looked great wet is looking way better now. I like the Uniform, still appears a bit big for her perhaps needs taken in just a bit. Yeah I think the Ladies back home will be very impressed with Sydney when she gets back.

Considering how Sydney wears them all the time, I suspect her glasses are reading bifocals, with the lower curves able to help her focus on reading text, and the rest just plain lenses, no actual curvature, much like sunglasses don’t have curves. She wears them for the same reason other people wear bifocals, so they don’t have to constantly put on and take off glasses.

…Because with the scatterbrained attention span of her level of ADHD, she’s bound to keep losing track of her reading glasses if she’s not constantly wearing them, but as noted in an earlier comment…that would hurt too much to be constantly looking at the rest of the world through lenses designed to allow her to read text.

After all, if they have the ability to give us not just “cut” bifocals that are visibly obvious where the reading lenses start, but actual smooth-ground transitional bificals that flow from nearsighted to reading prescriptions without any visible lines on the lenses…then they can easily make bifocals with plain lenses for the majority transitioning into reading lenses.

Is it common? …Not in terms of being openly discussed, no. But it can be done, and it is done.

Hell, bifocals can have the “reading glasses” portion put in the top half of the lenses, rather than the bottom half. How do I know? Because for almost two decades, every time my father needed a new set from a prescription change, got a pair of regular bifocals with the reading part on the lower half…and a second pair with the reading part on the upper half, specifically so that he could accurately prune the branches on the bushes and trees he needed to trim in his landscape maintenance business. The first he got it done that way, he had to chat with the lab personnel on the phone to reassure them that yes, he wanted the second pair cut that way…but after that reassurance, they did it every single time!

Sydney isn’t more than 25, I think. Far too young for her eyes to have stiffened to the point where she’ll have trouble focusing at reading distance. Or, for that matter, six inches away.

She won’t be thinking about reading lenses until she’s 42 and realizing she has to hold things at arms distance to read them and at that distance some of the tiny print on, eg, food container ingredient lists is getting hard to read.

I knew 3 kids in school who needed reading glasses. Many more who were nearsighted, of course (myself being one), but there were at least 3 teens in a high school of nearly 800 students…so it’s not that uncommon.

Because of cruel teasing, however, those who need reading glasses often hide the fact they need them Two of the kids didn’t use them, but instead used magnifying glasses, which were “easier” to conceal.

So if you don’t think that kids don’t need them…then consider how cruelly kids are teased, and the extent to which kids will try to avoid being cruelly mocked & teased…and maybe consider just why they might’ve hid their need for reading glasses, etc, around you. Oh, sure, you might not have teased them…but you might have laughed when someone else was teased…or you might have done nothing to defend others.

Kids who are bullied notice who helps them, who hurts them…and who does neither. (Those who do neither get lumped into the category of “might hurt me some day, because they clearly aren’t interested in helping me.”)

Color me surprised if a child needs _bifocal_ glasses. Lots of kids are nearsighted or farsighted and need glasses, but I’ve never seen a kid with a bifocal prescription as far as I know. Bifocals are an accommodation to eyes whose range of focus has grown too narrow for any single prescription to enable them to focus both near and far, and that is a thing that, in my own experience, set in with age.

I needed bifocal as a kid cause i had hard time seeing the board and reading the books in class. Over the years i stopped needing the bottom part to read but i still need them to see distances so i dont have bifocals anymore. When i read in bed nowaday i rarely keep glasses on.

Personally didn’t need glasses to read, butt when was in mid 20’s found needed glasses to read what was on the board at polytech (fortunately the student loan was enough to cover getting them), then, a few years later got Lasik surgery

Age should not be a determining factor when it comes to health, also had first of 8 strokes before 18th birthday, butt try and tell anyone (including doctors) that you have had a stroke (let alone multiple) strokes in your twenties and they won’t take any notice

So this is a large ship, with room for 80+ people (so say 40+, after modifications), but they are still putting the refugees in the cargo hold?
Guess it is easier to keep track of em if they are all confined to a single area. Or they don’t want ’em wandering around and finding consentacles and such…

The Alari are renowned for conquest and being naughty enough that the Xevoarchy has considered smacking them back down to the pre-interstellar age. And 37 versus…half a dozen…ish?…is pretty good odds for an uprising. Because as soon as they get over the shock and despair and horror (not counting PTSD) of what happened, they’ll want to reassert themselves somehow. Not all of them will remain permanently humbled by their refugee status. (It can be argued that aggressive people will be even more aggressive after recovering from a deeply humbling shock, in an attempt to reassert their view of their place in the universe.)

Cora knows her ship could be run by 1 person (hyence the exposition)…and as she’s a cautious soul she knows that all it takes is one of those 37 to succeed in taking it over, and that would be that. If the refugees are allowed access to the rest of the ship, that’s going to be a serious risk. (See above cultural need to re-establish their arrogant dominance attitude in order to “erase the shame of losing/having nothing” aka being refugees. Far easier to keep them all together in the cargo bay.

Additionally…by keeping them together, she gives them a support network to recover through shared comforting each other, and keeps them occupied with comforting children and tending the injured, etc. If they were allowed to reside in individual quarters, they’d have more time to think only of their own needs, not the needs of their fellow Alari on top of that…which means they’d have more free time to plot how to regain their former status as (Attempted) Rulers Of Inferior Races. Tossing them all together in the cargo bay gives them the chance to organize, yes…but it’s clear they care about their own kind, so that will occupy more of their attention.

Additionally, putting them into one large cargo bay means that all the surveillance is in one area, and if it goes out, there’s bound to be several cameras & sensors that can notice it going out. Equipment in individual quarters could go out “seemingly by random chance” and it’d be less easily to spot what’s happening before the Alari gets out and goes roaming…finding areas where there isn’t surveillance, and thus the room to plot.

No, better to put them into the cargo bay…which, as has been pointed out, can be vented to space if it becomes clear they’re about to attempt a takeover of the ship. And by putting them in the cargo bay, it might upset the nobles among the refugees to be dumped into a cargo bay…but they’re not stupid. They’ll no doubt realize that Cora knows that this is a great place & a great way to keep an eye on them, and realize it’s a good threat against trying to take over her ship (see cargo bay door opening & drawbacks thereof for the Alari in said cargo bay).

Cora also isn’t going to separate them from each other, and their ability to comfort each other in the most appropriate ways for their culture. Accepting comfort from an alien is less likely to be successful than from one another, after all. So while they’re in a cargo bay…they’re still together. They can plan for their future in whatever location they’ll be taken to.

also, they have had the ship for some time. ships cost money to operate. cargo pays money to ride. thus if you have a big ship, converting most of the unused space for cargo makes the ships more profitable. I would expect that there are not that many quarters in the ship- most having been converted into:
open cargo,
special handling cargo
high value cargo (secured)
extra large ‘cooling system’ that hides a space for things official types need not worry themselves too much about .

So it occurs to me what dabbler said after vehemence’s reveal of him using the power of violence as a power source, how if the entire fight had been an orgy she coulda taken everyone present one hand tied behind her back. That tentacle room being dabblet idea could be less a perversion and more a practical power up room for her and her tantric energy needs.

Cora is very pretty, seems interesting to talk to, and has the most astonishing cleavage.

I would say more, but I shouldn’t. I wouldn’t have said even that much had she seemed the sort of person who might be offended by it. She is mostly nice with occasional gusts of bloody violence. One would not want to cross her boundaries, but it is also clear that her boundaries are in unusual places.

I would definitely hit on her. But I’d do it with great caution, no demands as such, and lots of “Would you enjoy doing” before actually doing….

I suspect BlackIkarus was referencing the media in question. Several people assume the guy who is, to their perception, Fully enclosed in metal armor, and performs Alchemy, is Edward Elric, the Full Metal Alchemist.

This comic really need ssome fanfiction, or Quests/RP’s or the like. Hell, Sydney as a Quest Protagonist would work surprisingly well. Gamified in-universe progression system and mechanics in the form of the Orb Level-Up Screen, cloud cuckoolander nature of her personality, etc.

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